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GWJ Conference Call Episode 84

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Boom Blox, Bourne Craptacular, Haze, Echo Chrome, Spore, Former Civ IV Lead And Current Designer on Spore Special Guest Soren Johnson, The State of Strategy, Working With Will Wright and Sid Meier, Your Emails and more!

This week Soren Johnson joins us to talk about the state of the strategy genre, working with gaming legends and what we should be looking out for in the future. Julian reveals his mail gaming roots and Shawn finds a way to compare Boom Blox and Sins of a Solar Empire. Check out the comments section for an easy link to Rat Boy's epic GTA IV audio email!

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I'm an old Civ junkie (2 was my first) who may not have the time for the weird, long games I love so much, but there has to be something I can take from them. Something social - something not too demanding - something with a beginning and an end.

I totally hear what you're saying there. Civ 3 with the expansions was such a perfect game to me - but any game I allow myself to get that engrossed in nowadays, needs to have some sort of social component. I think that's why I've consciously drifted to the Guitar Hero Rock Band craze - I can wonk out and get into it, and it's ok b/c it's rock n roll and I like it. And the clearly defined end point of one song is so very manageable.